For the last few weeks, I’ve been feeling a bit sluggish, and my patience with my three darlings has been used up well before lunchtime. I’ve chalked up my less-than-charming personality to the summer doldrums and the excessive heat. Also, the doctor just told me my vitamin D levels were in the subhuman level, so maybe that’s been making me a little more edgy. But today as … [Read more...]
Past and Present
When I became a mother I figured I would lose some of my freedom and maybe even some of my sleep. I didn't know I would lose my once sharp memory. There was a time I could remember things as insignificant as what someone was wearing on a particular day. Now I'm lucky if I can remember what my kids wore yesterday.I could flip through my memory as if it was a photo album and … [Read more...]
My Baby Left Me
The other day while driving my son to middle school, I encountered a woman I didn't know. She was driving with a sense of purpose I’d not seen before. She was muttering things at cars in front of her that politeness won’t allow me to print. No car would let her in, even though her son was running late to school and she had a cranky five year-old in the back seat with a fever … [Read more...]
